An old wooden steam car staggered into the border town of Brenos, and a group of dusty children in the city excitedly ran around the steam car, like a group of small guards, with envy on their faces, escorting the steam car to the station in the city.

As soon as the steam car came to a stop, the travelers who had been bumpy all the way rushed out of the car door, trying to escape the old steam car that was bumpy and shaky all the way, as if it might fall apart at any moment.

Unlike most travelers who flee in a hurry, Lucius, who sits in the back row of the steam car, appears refreshed, and the bumps along the way are more like a unique treat for him.

Standing up from the hardwood seat, Lucius looked through the car window and looked at the scenery excitedly: "Haha, this big guy is so interesting, teacher, when we go back, let's sit again, shall we?"

Nestor, the old alchemist who had managed to get up from the hardwood chair beside him, heard his excited words, his legs went limp, and he sat back on the hardwood chair.

With a look of pain on his face, the old alchemist sat there, twisted his waist a few times, sighed and said to Lucius, "Let's get out of the car first, and let's talk about going back later." ”

It wasn't until the travelers in the carriage had finished and the children around the steam car had gradually dispersed, and the old alchemist finally slowly walked down the steam car that had been parked for a long time with the help of Lucius.

The moment he stood firmly on his feet, the old alchemist couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, stretched out his hands and feet, twisted his old waist twice, and said to Lucius next to him: "Lucius, when we go back, let's still walk, and it will also allow you to have more experience along the way." ”

"Well, teacher, didn't we come to Brenos just to practice? Why do we have to practice when we go back? Besides, the steam car sits in Dora Wind?"

"Bang" As soon as Lucius's voice fell, he received a staff from the old alchemist on his head, and the old alchemist held on to the cane and said in a deep voice: "You are so afraid of experience, you just want to enjoy it, how can you become a great alchemist?"

"A great alchemist should rise in suffering, use magic and alchemy to the extreme, integrate his ideas into alchemy, achieve the perfect fusion of magic and technology, and finally reach the peak comparable to the gods. Lucius whispered to the old alchemist's imagination, muttering the same words as the old alchemist.

As soon as the old alchemist's voice fell, he immediately said, "But teacher, I can't fuse the source core, even if I can understand those advanced alchemy, but I can't use it?"

The old alchemist, who was originally immersed in his imagination, suddenly darkened his expression when he heard this, looked down at Lucius's immature little face, and sighed: "Hey, the problem on your body has not been solved for so many years, and I came to Brenos this time, hoping to find a solution in that ruin." ”

Regarding the relics that the old alchemist had hoped for, Lucius remained skeptical: "Teacher, does that relic really exist? If it really exists, why don't the Holy See and the Six Great Temples send people to excavate it?"

"What do you know, stinky boy? Do you think that the Holy See and the Temple didn't send people to look for it? If they didn't dig it, how did the source core technology appear and spread? It's just that the ruins are only opened every hundred years, so even digging will be useless. ”

At the mention of the Holy See and the Temple, the old alchemist's face was obviously annoyed, and it was obvious that the old alchemist had a deep hatred for the Holy See and the Temple.

Lucius did not continue to mention the Holy See and the Temple, and as he followed the old alchemist out of the station, he asked, "Teacher, is that mysterious relic really powerful, and if he is so powerful, why is he still silent in the Misty Forest?"

"It was once a sanctuary, a place where even the gods would grovel, a city suspended in the sky, with true freedom and equality, where everyone who could set foot in it was duly rewarded for his labor, where there was no strife, no violence and no blood. ”

"There, everyone can use their talents, and those who have talents, and then compatible with the source core that matches their talents, can infinitely amplify their talents to an incredible extreme. ”

Hearing this, Lucius couldn't help but interject: "But teacher, why can others fuse various source cores, but I can't fuse those source cores?"

The old alchemist couldn't help but look gloomy when he heard this, stretched out his hand and stroked Lecius's hair and said, "I don't know, why can't you fuse the source core, maybe it's because the teacher's own attainments are limited, and the source core created is not suitable for you?"

He sighed and continued: "However, it is said that there is a very special kind of source core in the ruins, and it is said that the person who obtains that kind of source core can fuse various different source cores, and with the help of the power of other source cores, he will continue to promote, and finally be able to reach the level of Cheng Dù, which is comparable to that of a god." ”

The old alchemist's words made Lucius couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow, isn't that invincible? It can rival the power of the gods? Wouldn't it be able to sweep the entire continent alone?"

"Bang" The old alchemist raised his cane again, but this time he didn't hit Lucius on the head, he blocked it with his own hand, and at the same time said with some annoyance: "Hey, old fellow, don't always hit the head, you'll beat me stupid." ”

Putting down the crutches raised in his hand, the old alchemist sighed: "Hey, the source core that fuses all kinds of different powers, that's just a legend, a person's energy is limited after all, you have to know how to be satisfied, know how to make trade-offs, and understand what to do with the power?"

After a pause, the old alchemist stared at Lucius and said, "Lucius, you have to remember that if one day you get that powerful source core, you must ......"

Without waiting for the old alchemist to finish speaking, Lucius immediately took over: "I must unify the entire continent, become the king of the continent myself, and collect all the wealth and beauties in the world, wahahahaha......"

"Bang bang bang, oops......" Under the continuous beating of the crutches in the old alchemist's hand, Lucius kept muttering in his mouth: "What, this is also someone's ideal." ”

Under the old alchemist's shadowless stick for a while, Lucius finally admitted his mistake pitifully, and then followed the old alchemist silently with a bag full of bags, and walked towards the narrow alley of the civilian area northwest of Brenos City.

After wandering around in the damp and dark narrow alley for a long time, the old alchemist led Lucius to a rusty iron door, raised his cane and tapped it on the iron door a few times.

The original rusty iron door immediately appeared on the surface of the Dao Demon Pattern, and the magic pattern spread along the rust of the iron door, and in the blink of an eye, all the rust on the iron door disappeared.

Lucius was stunned when he saw this, and watched as the iron door cracked open from the middle, and with a "click" sound, it quickly folded to the sides, revealing a simple and elegant carved wooden door.

"Knock knock" knocked on the wooden door of the Three Gorges, and without waiting for someone to respond from inside the door, the old alchemist directly pushed the door open, and instructed Lucius while thinking about walking inside the door: "Follow me." ”

Seeing that the old alchemist's face was stern, Lu Xius's expression also became strict, and when the old alchemist entered the wooden door, he also took steps and stepped into the wooden door.

The moment he entered the door, "Squeak...... The wooden door closed in response, and at the same time, the dim lights on both sides of the corridor inside the door, through the dim light, you can clearly see that a corridor covered with elegant carpets, and the walls on both sides with beautiful wallpaper are hung with a variety of metalwork.

"Wow, Teacher, there's a glider here, and it looks different from the one I made. Suddenly, Lucius saw the metal glider hanging from the wall, and he couldn't help but scream, and at the same time reached out to touch it.

"Stop. The old alchemist ruthlessly stopped Lucius, "You'd better not touch those things, or you'll annoy the master here, and I won't save you." ”

Hearing the old alchemist's shout, thinking of this strange room, Lucius stood there and hesitated for a long time, but finally withdrew his hand, glanced at the glider greedily, and turned to keep up with the old alchemist's pace.

Walking down the long corridors, Lucius saw many things that he coveted, such as wooden wheelbarrows and swarthy metal gears.

At the end of the corridor, follow the old alchemist into the room at the end, the simple and elegant furnishings of the room look like an old shop.

"Oh, hahaha, Nestor, you old fellow came so early, I thought you'd have to wait a few more days to get there, what?

In the room, behind the faded wooden counter, an old one-eyed dragon stood there, and when he saw the old alchemist coming, the old one-eyed dragon looked extremely excited, and his smile wrinkled his face together, and when combined with the lantern-like one-eye, it looked extremely hideous.

"Are the things and manpower ready?" the old alchemist obviously didn't mean to greet the old one-eyed dragon, and said bluntly with an expressionless face.

The old one-eyed dragon didn't care about the old alchemist Nestor's unkindness, shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Hehe, the things are ready, I'm afraid there are some problems in terms of manpower." ”

Hearing this, Nestor frowned slightly, but before he could speak, the old one-eyed dragon explained: "Old man, you should know that there are many people who covet the ruins, and now that a hundred years are approaching, the ruins are about to open, and everyone wants to get the treasures and inheritances in the ruins, and it is really difficult to find manpower." ”

"However, if you want, I can introduce a team of adventurers, and you can go with them in a group, this is the best solution in a short time, if you want, I can ......"

Without waiting for the old one-eyed dragon to finish speaking, Nestor refused: "I can wait." ”

As he spoke, Nestor turned around to leave, but Lucius felt a little dazed when he saw this, but he still turned around and followed the old alchemist.

But before the master and apprentice could walk out of the door, the voice of the old one-eyed dragon sounded again: "You damn old stubborn, you are still so stubborn after so many years, and now that the news has spread, I don't know how many people are staring here, do you think you can avoid the Holy See and the Temple if you go?"

Hearing this, Nestor stopped, and Lucius heard the footsteps behind him, turned his head to look, but saw the old one-eyed dragon come out from behind the counter, slowly approached him, and bent down to look at himself carefully.

"Hehe, I can't imagine that the little troublemakers of the year have grown up, young man, have you learned how many old stubborn skills?"

Facing the old one-eyed dragon's question, Lu Xius was not afraid at all, and said a little shyly: "I, I just learned some simple alchemy, because I can't fuse the alchemy source core, so I have to draw an alchemy array." ”

"Oh, poor little one. As he spoke, the old one-eyed dragon turned and stretched out one arm into the counter.

At this moment, Lucius realized that the other party's arm was actually metal, and the arm of "Squeak" continued to stretch, and finally reached into the counter and grabbed a small ball on the counter table.

But when it was retracted, there seemed to be something wrong with the mechanical arm, and no matter how hard the old one-eyed dragon tried, it could never retract: "Oh, damn it, it always goes wrong at the critical moment." ”

The annoyed old one-eyed dragon shook his arms violently, and instead of being retracted, the mechanical arm stretched longer, and the metal fist smashed into the wall, just getting stuck and holding the old one-eyed dragon up.

Seeing the old one-eyed dragon propped up in the air by the mechanical arm and kicking his legs, Nestor couldn't help but sigh: "I said a long time ago, let you don't fiddle with your things, the technology is not good, and you have to be strong." ”

"Hey, old stubborn, don't be verbose, help me down first. The old one-eyed dragon asked Nestor for help.

Nestor obviously didn't want to intervene, and stood there without moving, but Lucius seemed to find the clue, slowly walked to the joint of the extended mechanical arm, stretched out his hand and played with the gear at the joint twice.

However, because the strength was too small, he was unable to pluck the gears, so he withdrew his hand and looked down for a while, took out a small ball from his pocket, held the ball with both hands and silently recited the incantation.

In the blink of an eye, the metal ball turned into a small wrench, carefully inserted the wrench into the joint of the robotic arm, slowly twisted the stuck gears inside, and the "click" robotic arm gears rotated again, and quickly retracted to normal length.